What I learned today....

Suess Clan

After Christmas, all of Jim's family arrived for a visit. Here is a picture of the boys:Josh, Jim, T John, John and Jeff

Christmas Day

What a fun day!!! We all had so much fun opening up our presents this year.Look at the Loot!! You must have all been VERY good this year.John is ready to begin....Matthew is enjoying opening up his stocking. So much stuff.Sarah got her webkinz. She loves her new goldfish.Daddy got a new pair of shoes.

Christmas was a success!!! My parents and I were also there for Christmas morning. Somehow, there are no pictures of us. Later that day, Uncle John and Aunt DeAnn joined us for our traditional Christmas Day dinner or Prime Rib and Yorkshire Pudding. YUMMY!!!!!

Christmas Eve

On Christmas Eve, we attended church services. This year, John was Joseph at the Christmas Eve service. The kids did a great job and appeared to have lots of fun.Sarah and Matthew were not in the pageant. Here they are sitting in their daddy's lap before church began.

After church services, we returned home and ate a nice Christmas Eve dinner. The kids got dressed in their jammies. Remember, Santa won't come unless everyone is asleep.
After cookies were set out for Santa and reindeer food was sprinkled on the lawn, the kids were tucked into their beds.

Santa Visit

Santa made his yearly visit to the preschool on December 6th. They kids were ready with their special requests.

Sarah asked Santa for a webkinz.

John asked Santa for a Webkinz and some Pokemon trading cards.John and Sarah sitting on Santa's Lap.

Matthew was in his daddy's arms. He refused to speak to or sit on Santa's lap.

Debbie

Thanksgiving in Oklahoma City

Over the week of Thanksgiving this year, we traveled (by car) to Oklahoma. Our kids had the entire week off from school so we made a vacation out of our trip. We first traveled to Tulsa where Jim's parents live. We spent several days at their house visiting friends etc. While we were in OK, Jim and I traveled to Norman for an OU football game. We went to the OU/TT game on Saturday November 22nd. This was a great game despite the cold weather. This was the first game that we had attended in many years.

After spending several days in Tulsa, we made the trek to OKC. The main reason for our travels was my sister's wedding. She got married on November 29th. We had a great time.

Here are some highlights.....The Girls...Tiffani, Sarah, Kim

Sarah Kissing Aunt Kim

Kim and Debbie


Matthew hiding underneath Kyle's Legs


Kim teasing Matthew


John kissing Kim

John and Sarah exiting wedding

Kim and Kelly

Mom and Dad with Kim

Relaxing after the wedding by watching Sooner football

Debbie

Matthew's Fun in the Tub

Matthew loves to play in the tub. Each night while Daddy is washing his hair, he asks for his hair to be styled in a mohawk or spikey. Tonight was a spikey night. As you can clearly see, it has been too long since his last hair cut. His hair is so long. Enjoy,
Debbie

Mommy's Got a New Pair of Boots....

and Sarah too. Don't we look just smashing in our new boots.

With Love,
Debbie

Mom, I AM NOT tired.

Today when I picked Matthew up from school, he was not very nice in the car. I explained to him that when we got home he was going to take a nap. He insisted to me that "HE WAS NOT TIRED". I opted not to argue with him. When we arrived home, he asked me for his favorite lunch - a peanut butter and jelly roll up. While he was eating his lunch, I decided to put away some stuff upstairs. It became very quiet downstairs and at this point, I decided that I should check on him. This is what I found....

He fell asleep cuddling napkins on the kitchen table. As you can see, his roll up is half eaten and no longer on his plate. We are at that very hard, in-between stage with him these days. If he doesn't take a nap he is unbearable, and if he does take a nap he stays up too late at night and the cycle starts over again the next day. This too shall pass.

How Could it Be?

Happy Birthday Sarah!!! We love you.

How did six years already pass? I cannot believe that we celebrated Sarah's 6th Birthday this week. She is just growing up too fast. She had a wonderful day. We went to church and she was able to celebrate with her Sunday School class. We then went and met Uncle Josh and Aunt DeAnn for a fantastic pizza lunch. Here are some pictures of her on her special day.